October 23, 2013
Will a New Republican Party Please Stand Up?
By Kathleen Gotto

Americans know the Republican Party has lost its way and the effectiveness of party conservatives has been neutralized. But it is not just the Republican Party per se that is the problem. All three branches of the federal government have seized our inheritance to the point where now we citizens are the ones who support and defend the Constitution, and career politicians and judges are destroying what is left of it.

It is indisputable that the Republican Party offers no united opposition to the tyrannical Left. Indeed, in the recent government shutdown fiasco, Republican senators repudiated their fellow House Republicans and stood against them with the Democrats. That action was a slap in the face to not just those Republicans trying to rein in the Left's disastrous fiscal policies, but to all Americans who are concerned about the socialist agenda that is destroying our nation. The question before us is what to do about it.

There are two major schools of thought on what should be done. One is to change the Republican Party from within. However, the Establishment members have been so long entrenched in their power positions that there is no way they will just move aside and let the conservative members assume positions of leadership in the party. In a disgusting show of grandstanding, both Democrat and Republican senators and congressmen publicly attacked Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, who are fighting for us and our country. These two conservatives are real statesmen, and by their actions and values, show the contrast with political hacks in stark relief. Political leadership today has more in common with the mafia than with statesmanship.

Andrew McCarthy understands what happened in the 2012 election. He nails it. Millions of voters decided to sit out that election, rather than cast a meaningless vote for another RINO. Those who did vote had hoped that Mitt Romney could at least stem the hemorrhaging caused by the socialist agenda.

Of course, the 2008 election fared no better with John McCain as the Republican candidate. Too many voters saw McCain as the RINO he is, and from all accounts, those who did vote Republican did so only because Gov. Sarah Palin was the V-P candidate.

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